A mammogram is an x-ray picture of the breast. Mammograms can be used to check for breast cancer in women who have no signs or symptoms of the disease. This type of mammogram is called a screening mammogram.
Board certified: In medicine, a description for a physician who has taken and passed a medical specialty examination by one of several recognized boards of specialists. Before obtaining board certification, the physician must become board eligible.
General Practitioner â This is the practice term to be used by a doctor who is not certified in family medicine or another specialty. RCPSC â Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the body that governs specialty certification. FRCSC â Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.When these initials appear after a surgeonâs name, it indicates residency training in a surgical specialty â ophthalmology, otolaryngology or plastic surgery, for example. FRCPC â Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.octors can call themselves surgeons or use the title surgery or a variation or abbreviation to describe their practice if they are certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) in a surgical specialty or subspecialty.